Engagement Background

Ahead of an anticipated high-volume public product release, the engineering team needed to shield their sign-up APIs and marketing endpoints from credential stuffing, bot scraping, and distributed denial of service (DDoS) bursts.

Orieneic designed and executed an edge-hardening program across DNS, edge workers, and application firewalls to protect availability without impacting legitimate conversion flows.

Edge firewall traffic filtering and real-time mitigation telemetry
Edge firewall traffic filtering and real-time mitigation telemetry

Edge Defense Strategy

  • Invisible Bot Detection: Cloudflare Turnstile with interaction-only challenges replaced intrusive CAPTCHAs, preventing automated abuse while keeping friction at zero for real users.
  • Adaptive Rate Limiting: Dynamic thresholds adapt to traffic anomalies, throttling suspicious IP clusters before requests ever touch backend origins.
  • Strict Content Security: End-to-end CSP headers, strict referrer policies, and origin cloaking safeguard the application surface against injection attacks.

Launch Resilience

During launch week, the edge defenses successfully deflected over 450,000 malicious automation attempts while maintaining a flawless 100% uptime for legitimate users globally.

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